Strategies Training Approach

Training promotes and delivers the continuous learning needed by staff to build and sustain effective services and organizational infrastructure. Training serves multiple functions including, but not limited to, transferring knowledge, building staff skills, promoting best practices, building and repairing relationships, breaking isolation, acting as a catalyst for change, and reinforcing effective practices. Training is not the answer to everything, rather it is an effective tool that can be designed to meet a variety of individual, group, and organizational needs.

It is our goal that all Strategies training:

• Reflect the most current thinking and practice within the family support field
• Be a combination of research-based presentation and participant reflection and dialogue
• Promote shared learning and group participation
• Deepen participants' commitment to the Family Support Principles
• Be highly participatory and interactive as prescribed by adult learning theory
• Prepare participants to leave the training with next steps in mind